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Fear is how you lose your life . . . a little bit at a time. . . . What we give to fear, we take away from . . . faith." The"
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Without love, we are birds with broken wings
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These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. They were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness
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Before I came to you," he said, "you came to me." Sarah studied his face. "You don't really fix clocks, do you?" "I prefer them broken." "Why is that?" Victor said. Dor looked at the grain of sand in his fingers. "Because I am the sinner who created them."
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Because, from the beginning , God said, 'I'm gonna put this world into your hands. If I run everything, then that's not you.' So we were created with a piece of divinity inside us, but with this thing called free will, and I think God watches us everyday, lovingly, praying we will make the right choices.
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spiritual-growth
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People are only mean when they're threatened
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Because, from the beginning, God said, 'I'm gonna put this world into your hands. If I run everything, then that's not you.' So we were created with a piece of divinity inside us, but with this thing called free will, and I think God watches us everyday, lovingly, praying we will make the right choices.
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spiritual-growth
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So often, we push away the voices closest to us. But once they're gone, we reach for them.
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You can be a mama's boy or and a Daddy's boy,but you can't be both. So you cling to the you you think you might lose.
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I thought about how often this was needed in everyday life. How we feel lonely, sometimes to the point of tears, but we don't let those tears come because we are not supposed to cry. Or how we feel a surge of love for a partner but we don't say anything because we're frozen with the fear of what those words might do to the relationship. Morrie's approach was exactly the opposite. Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won't ..
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Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too--even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.
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Morrie smiled. "Mitch, you asked about caring for people I don't even know. But can I tell you the thing I'm learning most with this disease?" What's that? "The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in." His voice dropped to a whisper. "Let it come in. We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said, 'Love is the on..
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My friends, if we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of 'I could have, I should have.' We can sleep in a storm. "And when it's time, our good-byes will be complete."
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life-lessons
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He loved to smile. He avoided anger. He was never haunted by "Why am I here?" He knew why he was here, he said: to give to others, to celebrate God, and to enjoy and honour the world he was put in. His morning prayers began with "Thank you, Lord, for returning my soul to me." When you start that way, the rest of the day is a bonus."
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life-lessons
spiritual-growth
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When a baby comes into the world, its hands are clenched, right? Like this?" He made a fist. "Why? Because a baby, not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say, 'The whole world is mine.' "But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned his lesson." What lesson? I asked. He stretched open his empty fingers. "We can take nothing with us."
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I believe in being fully present.
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We do not realize the sound the world makes--unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra.
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Mitch Albom |
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Holding on to things will only break your heart
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No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone." He"
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You might think a person who brings proof of heaven would be embraced. But even in the presence of a miracle, the human heart will say, 'Why not me?
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He almost told her everything right then, that very moment. But you grab a moment, or you let it pass. He let it pass. "Me,"
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It's funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes.
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Mitch Albom |
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Memories are not in places, Papa. Memories are in your mind. They're here, too.
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Mitch Albom |
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I thought about how often this was needed in everyday life. How we feel lonely, sometimes to the point of tears, but we don't let those tears come because we are not supposed to cry. Or how we feel a surge of love for a partner but we don't say anything because we're frozen with the fear of what those words might do to the relationship.
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tears
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He leaned in. "Now. My turn. Look, if you say that science will eventually prove there is no God, on that I must differ. No matter how small they take it back, to a tadpole, to an atom, there is always something they can't explain, something that created it all at the end of that search. "And no matter how far they try to go to the other way---to extend life, play around with the genes, clone this, clone that, live to one hundred and fifty..
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god-s-presence
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Mitch Albom |
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The curtain has just come down on childhood
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Mitch Albom |
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And one day spent with someone you love can change everything. I
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We think because we're human we're somethin above nature...we are not. Everything that gets born, dies.
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It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at 22, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at 22. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.
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Remember what I said about finding a meaningful life? I wrote it down, but now I can recite it: Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. "You notice" he added, grinning, "there's nothing in there about a salary."
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Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, bene..
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These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. They were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you, as I'm sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither mone..
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The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
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when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I'm going to live---or at least try to live---the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.
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She wanted to melt into the ground at that moment, just hot wax into a puddle and disappear through a sewer grate. His eyes. That look. No interest. Total humiliation
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Mitch Albom |
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The day he learned that he was terminally ill was the day he lost interest in his purchasing power.
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Mitch Albom |
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Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too---even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.
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Mitch Albom |
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There are moments on earth when the Lord smiles at the unexpected sweetness of His creation. This was one of those moments. "What's"
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Mitch Albom |
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Barely pausing between songs, he played American compositions like "St. Louis Blues" and "Tiger Rag." He played "Parfum" from the gypsy legend Django Reinhardt. He"
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Mitch Albom |
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Dizzy Gillespie, the jazz trumpet player, once said, "It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play." He was one of my special ones. And he was quite correct. Silence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But"
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Mitch Albom |
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That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays.
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Mitch Albom |
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Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.
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Mitch Albom |
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We all have the same beginning - birth - and we all have the same end - death. So how different can we be?
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Mitch Albom |
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But everyone knows someone who has died, I said. Why is it so hard to think about dying? 'Because,' Morrie continued, 'most of us walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.' And facing death changes all that? 'Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials. When you realize you are going to die, you s..
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